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| The Natchez Naturalist
Newsletter (the book) Excerpts from Jim's weekly newsletter issued during his years of living as a hermit in the woods near Natchez, Mississippi. Contains descriptions of plants and animals, and Jim's simple but always interesting life. words: ±74,700 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) with drawings, for Adobe Reader, all formatting, 184 pages, file size: 6.1 MB |
PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, all formatting, 184 pages, no drawings, file size: 572 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, ±138 single spaced, file size: 428 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, 185 pages, file size: 600 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with drawings, fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, 243 pages, file size: 6.5 MB |
WORD FOR MACINTOSH (.mcw), no drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ±185 pages, file size: 500 KB; |
| Walks with Red Dog A book for young people, about the days when Jim walked with his dog on the gravel road running by his house in rural western Kentucky. words: ±7,200 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, with color drawings, all formatting, 30 pages, file size: 572 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±23, single spaced, file size: 40 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with color drawings and ffully ormatted, printed pages: 29, file size: 600 KB |
WORD FOR MACINTOSH (.mcw), no drawings or formatting but at least you can read it. Printed pages: 19, file size: 47 KB |
| Mistletoe: One Year in The Life of
An Eastern Gray Squirrel Twelve chapters for each month of the year comprise this short book, with each chapter needing no more than ten to fifteen minutes to read. Jim made every effort for Mistletoe's behavior to reflect what real squirrels in the wild are like. No talking animals here. Still, Mistletoe manages to have a pretty interesting year. words: ±17, 800 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, with color drawings and fully formatted, 48 pages, file size: 374 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±40, file size: 100 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs,printed pages: 46, file size: 200 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with color drawings and fully formatted, printed pages: 48, file size: 300 KB |
| Yellow Ribbon: One Year in The
Life of A House Sparrow Twelve chapters for each month of the year comprise this short book, with each chapter needing no more than ten to fifteen minutes to read. Jim made every effort for Yellow Ribbon's behavior to reflect what real House Sparrows in the wild are like. No talking animals here. Still, Yellow Ribbon manages to have a pretty interesting year. words: ±17, 800 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, with color drawings and fully formatted, 49pages, file size: 304 KB |
PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, without drawings but fully formatted, 45 pages, file size: 172 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±40, fiile size: 100 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no drawings but fully formatted, printed pages: 45, file size: 200 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with Jim's color drawings, fully formatted, printed pages: 49, file size: 457 KB |
| A 1996 Birding Trip through
Mexico From sand dunes in extreme northern Mexico to borderline cloudforest in extreme southern Mexico, both coasts, a volcanic peak and both the Eastern and Western Sierra Madres, this account is half birds and half about the people and landscape. words: ±52,200 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, with color drawings and fully formatted, 141 pages, file size: 1.5 MB |
PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, no drawings but fully formatted, 131 pages, file size: 510 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±109, fiile size: 300 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no illustrations but fully formatted, printed pages: 161, file size: 450 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with Jim's color drawings and fully formatted, printed pages: 167, file size: 1,200 KB |
| Spring Comes to The Desert The day after Christmas, 1987, Jim left for the Southwestern Desert, then for the next few months camped in various deserts chronicling the coming of spring. words: ±35,700 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) with maps showing each stop and a few pictures, fully formatted, printed pages: 88, file size: 875 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±72, file size: 200 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with maps showing each stop and a few pictures, fully formatted, pages: 88, file size: 630 KB |
| One Day in the Life of a Mexican
Market Around 1995 Jim spent a day in the giant, very crowded, colorful, loud, smelly, very interesting Merced Mercado in Mexico City, writing what he saw and experienced one hour after the other. Here you can read those notes. |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) with a few pictures, fully formatted, printed pages: 26, file size: 231 KB |
PDF FORMAT (.pdf) fully formatted but no pictures, printed pages: 25, file size: 111 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±21, file size: 66 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no drawings but fully formatted, printed pages: 25, file size: 99KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with several photographs, fully formatted, printed pages: 26, file size: 683 KB |
| Yerba Buena: Word-Snapshots from a
Missionary Clinic in Southern Mexico's Indian Territory In 1988 Jim visited an isolated hospital clinic in southern Mexico serving the area's indigenous population. Here you can meet people and read about scenery and events that most people in the computer-using world can hardly imagine. |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) with pictures, fully formatted, printed pages: 109, file size: 2.2 MB |
PDF FORMAT (.pdf) with no pictures but fully formatted, printed pages: 99, file size: 533 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±117, file size: 245 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no drawings but fully formatted, printed pages: 99, file size: 387KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with photographs, fully formatted, printed pages: 109, file size: 1,082 KB |
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| A FIELD GUIDE TO NATURE'S WISDOM Moments in Nature interpreted in terms of the wisdom they convey. words: ±42,500 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, all formatting, 154 pages, no drawings, file size: 537 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, file size: 258 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc) with basic formatting, no drawings, 154 pages, file size: 593 KB |
| Nature, Man & The Creative Universal Force This is an earlier incarnation of A FIELD GUIDE TO NATURE'S WISDOM, a draft copy of which is available above. words: ±47, 400 |
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PDF FORMAT (.pdf) for Adobe Reader, all formatting, 184 pages, no drawings, file size: 357 KB |
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings, printed pages: ±90 single spaced, file size: 283 KB |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), formatted with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, printed pages: ±110, file size: 400 KB |
WORD FOR MACINTOSH (.mcw), with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, printed pages: ±105, file size: 281 KB |